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A drawing of Civil War soldiers toasting each other around a table as death, in the form of a skeleton, waits outside the tent (c. 1863).

Understanding Trauma in the Civil War South

Suicide during the Civil War and Reconstruction.
by Sarah Handley-Cousins, Diane Miller Sommerville via Nursing Clio on March 20, 2019

The Challenge of Preserving the Historical Record of #MeToo

Archivists face a battery of technical and ethical questions with few precedents.
by Nora Caplan-Bricker via The New Yorker on March 11, 2019

The Mistress's Tools

White women and the economy of slavery.
by Lynne Feeley via The Nation on February 26, 2019

Winthrop’s “City” Was Exceptional, not Exceptionalist

A review of Daniel T. Rodgers’ "As a City on a Hill: The Story of America’s Most Famous Lay Sermon."
by Jim Sleeper via Los Angeles Review of Books on February 19, 2019
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The History of History

How historians and educators have written and taught about different eras of the American past.

How the United States Reinvented Empire

Americans tend to see their country as a nation-state, not an imperial power.
by Patrick Iber via The New Republic on February 12, 2019
American Indian woman and children.

The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee

“Our cultures are not dead and our civilizations have not been destroyed. Our present tense is evolving as rapidly and creatively as everyone else’s.”
by David Treuer via Longreads on January 22, 2019

The Vanishing Indians of “These Truths”

Jill Lepore's widely-praised history of the U.S. relies on the eventual exit of indigenous actors to make way for other dramas.
by Christine DeLucia via Los Angeles Review of Books on January 10, 2019

Best American History Reads of 2018

Bunk's editor shares some of his favorite pieces from the year.
by Tony Field via Medium on January 8, 2019
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What Does History Smell Like?

Scholars don't typically pay that much attention to smells, but odors have historically been quite significant.
by Mark S. R. Jenner, Livia Gershon via JSTOR Daily on December 28, 2018
Painting of people pulling down a statue to King George III in New York City.

Patriot Propaganda

A new book argues that race and racism fueled the fires of the American Revolution.
by Gautham Rao via Society for U.S. Intellectual History on November 25, 2018
Jill Lepore

'The Academy Is Largely Itself Responsible for Its Own Peril'

On writing the story of America, the rise and fall of the fact, and how women’s intellectual authority is undermined.
by Jill Lepore, Evan Goldstein via The Chronicle of Higher Education on November 13, 2018
Covers of Lepore's "These Truths" and Loomis's "History of America in Ten Strikes."

The Limits of Liberal History

You can’t tell the story of America without the story of labor.
by Nathan J. Robinson via Current Affairs on October 28, 2018
Stack of biographies.

Arguing Biography

An university press editor considers the merits and limitations of biography as a scholarly form.
by Michael J. McGandy via Uncommon Sense on October 23, 2018

History for a Post-Fact America

A review of Jill Lepore's new book, which she has called the most ambitious single-volume American history written in generations.
by Alex Carp via New York Review of Books on October 19, 2018
Lithograph titled "Kiss Me Quick" showing a man and a woman kissing. The woman has her hands on the hats of two children.

Sexual Revolution: Event or Process?

The most important dimension of the sexual revolution of the '60s and '70s was the increased freedom of sexual speech.
by Jeffrey Escoffier, Christopher Mitchell via NOTCHES on October 11, 2018
Paul Ortiz’s “African American and Latinx History of the United States.”

Beyond People’s History

On Paul Ortiz’s “African American and Latinx History of the United States.”
by Samantha Schuyler via Los Angeles Review of Books on September 29, 2018
Collage of children in school and historic and patriotic images.

Amid the Online Glut of Facts and Fake News, We’re Teaching History Wrong

This is even trickier now that the language of critical thinking has been appropriated by the alt-right.
by Rebecca Onion, Sam Wineburg via Slate on September 18, 2018
Zinn's book, "A People's History of the United States."

Howard Zinn’s Anti-Textbook

Teachers and students love "A People’s History of the United States." But it’s just as limited as the textbooks it replaces.
by Sam Wineburg via Slate on September 16, 2018
W.E.B. Du Bois

The Legacy of Black Reconstruction

Du Bois's "Black Reconstruction in America" showed that the black freedom struggle has always been one for radical democracy.
by Robert Greene II via Jacobin on August 27, 2018

Revolution and Repression: A Framework for African American History

Running through all of historian Gerald Horne's books are the twin themes of revolution and repression.
by Brandon R. Byrd via Black Perspectives on August 21, 2018

How Slavery Inspired Modern Business Management

The connections between the two systems of labor have been persistently neglected in mainstream business history.
by Caitlin C. Rosenthal via Boston Review on August 17, 2018
Violence during the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville on August 12, 2017.
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Charlottesville Was About Memory, Not Monuments

Why our history educations must be better.
by Julian Maxwell Hayter via Made By History on August 10, 2018

Why Is History Always About Humans?

As historians turn their attention to animals, they are shedding new light on what it means to be human.
by Amy Crawford via Boston Globe on July 13, 2018

Stop Calling it ‘The Great Migration’

For people of color watching over their shoulder, the fear of police interference harkens back to a historical moment with a much-too-benign label.
by Brentin Mock via CityLab on July 4, 2018

Ira Berlin, Transformative Historian of Slavery in America, Dies at 77

He “put the history of slavery at the center of our understanding of American history.”
by Harrison Smith via Washington Post on June 6, 2018
Political cartoon of Grover Cleveland's trade policy.

Can History Avoid Conspiracy?

Historians still lack a good way to define, discuss, and address historical actions that appear to be "conspiracies."
by Andy Seal via U.S. Intellectual History Blog on June 4, 2018
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Resurrection City, 2.0

A generation ago, historians dismissed the Poor People’s Campaign of 1968. On the eve of a reboot, we can see it in a different light.
by Marisa Chappell on May 12, 2018

The Silent Type

David Blight reviews Ron Chernow's biography of Ulysses S. Grant.
by David W. Blight via New York Review of Books on May 6, 2018

The Role of Water in African American History

Have historians privileged land-based models and ignored how African Americans participated in aquatic activities?
by Tyler D. Parry via Black Perspectives on May 4, 2018

Kanye’s Brand of “Freethinking” Has a Long, Awful History

His condemnation of enslaved people’s failure to rebel is drawn from a dangerous ideology that’s older than the United States.
by Rebecca Onion via Slate on May 2, 2018
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